Alexander I of Amathia
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| Alexander I | |||||
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 Alexander I of Amathia in 2018 | |||||
| Domnitor of Amathia | |||||
| Reign | 15 January 1935 – 18 November 1936 | ||||
| Coronation | 17 January 1935 | ||||
| Predecessor | Nicolae II | ||||
| Successor | Monarchy abolished | ||||
| Born | 25 October 1921 Palace of the Roses, Arciluco, Kingdom of Amathia | ||||
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| House | House of Telois-Tresia | ||||
| Father | Nicolae II of Amathia | ||||
| Religion | Episemialism | ||||
Alexander I of Amathia (Amathian: Ⰰⰾⰵⰽⱄⰰⱀⰴⱃⱆ I ⰴⰵ Ⰰⰿⰰⱚⰹⰰ, tr. Alexandru I de Amathia) was the last Domnitor of Amathia, reigning from 15 January 1935 until the defeat of the monarchist forces in the Amathian Civil War on 18 November 1936, even though the permanent end of the Amathian monarchy was only recognised by the international community in 1937.
Alexander was born as the second son of the reigning Amathian monarch Nicolae II in 1921, and he became the heir to the throne after the assassination of his older brother Vasile by Amurgist radicals in 1924. Paranoia over his safety led to him and his younger siblings being in practice sequestered in the Royal Palace for most of their lives, under the careful supervision of their father and guards from Siguranța, the royal secret police. His father developed what many consider to have been an obsession with turning him into the perfect heir, which led to young Alexander being successively tutored by some of the brightest minds of his age. For the same reason, a special group of students was selected to learn alongside him, handpicked by the King and his advisors from all of Amathia, known as the Palatine Class. Despite the beginning of the Great War, his education continued in the exact same way, with the young Prince only finding out about Amathia joining the conflict from listening to the radio with his siblings.
Alexander's palace life suddenly ended in 1935 when, with the death of his father, his position as Amathia's new Domnitor catapulted him right in the middle of the military-functionalist coup d'etat against the Amurgists. Despite only being 14 years old, Alexander refused to be used as a puppet by any of the two factions, not acknowledging them and escaping Arciluco with the help of his uncle, Prince Mircea. A democratic government was formed in the city of Cluzia with his support, but both Narozalica and Etruria, the two powers military invading Amathia at the time, and the Functionalist Gaullican state refused to acknowledge its legitimacy, leading to the beginning of the Amathian Civil War.
A short but incredibly violent and brutal conflict, the civil war ended with a victory of the Republican League under the leadership of the Revolutionary Equalist Front, with Narozalican support. Alexander and the rest of his family were captured by Equalist paramilitary groups while fleeing Cluzia, and were promptly condemned to death and executed during the night by firing squad. Alexander himself was shot, but he was just wounded, something that the Equalist soldiers missed. During the celebrations, a group of peasants managed to sneak to the site of the execution and discovered that the King was still alive - leading to them smuggling him out of the village with the help of the village priest. Alexander managed to survive his wounds, and he was taken out of the country by some of the last remaining monarchist units of the army, going into exile.
